This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition story performance and cultural memory.Contributors include: •John Miles Foley •Martin Jaffee •Jonathan A.Draper •Ellen Aitken •Holly Hearon •Vernon K. Robbins •Whitney Shiner •Jan Assmann •Jens Schroeter •Richard A. Horsley.